LOWER HARDRES. This village, near the Roman road from Canterbury called Stone
Street, is in Bridge union, four miles east from Chilham station, 80 from
London, and three and a half south of Canterbury. Its population was, in 1851,
265. The church is a small, ancient, neat building, dedicated to St. Mary. The
living is a rectory, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor; the Rev. George
Rashleigh is the incumbent, and the Rev. William Bradstreet, M.A., Curate.
Herman Sole and greenway on Slane Street are to the S.W.; Cook;s Farm, one mile
S.E.; Young's, one mile south.
Bradstreet, Rev. William, M.A.